Calling all anime fans — more stories of fantasy, horror, and adventure are heading your way! Check out the most anticipated anime series of 2022, and start adding to your Watch List.
15. Salaryman’s Club - January 23rd
The anime follows Mikoto Shiratori, a prodigy badminton player, who suffers from trauma following a loss at the inter-high tournament. He becomes a salaryman at the Sunlight Beverage company and befriends the best performing player and salesman on the team.
14. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners - TBA
A street kid tries to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an Edgerunner, a mercenary outlaw also known as a Cyberpunk.
13. A Couple of Cuckoos - TBA
A teenager arranges to have dinner with his biological parents for the first time, and by a stroke of fate meets socialite Erika Amano. The pair soon discovers that they were switched at birth, and the parents want to make amends for the past by getting them to marry each other.
12. Skeleton Knight in Another World - TBA
A gamer falls asleep and finds himself in the video game world – as a skeleton! Equipped with powerful weapons and the armor of his avatar (but stuck with a frightening skeletal appearance), Arc has to find a place for himself in this new fantastical land.
11. She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man - January 12th
The series follows Sakimori Kagami, a longtime player of online video game Arch Earth Online. One day after adjusting his character, he gets sucked into the game world and finds himself inhabiting his character's body.
10. My Isekai Life: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World! -TBA
When Yuji Sano’s home PC flashes a message about him being summoned to another world, Yuji restarts his machine… only to find that he has inadvertently accepted the summons and is now in a fantasy world far removed from paperwork and computers.
9. The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt - January 11th
The genius prince once fought alongside his people and led them to a great many triumphs, but now, he wants to let everything go and live in tranquility…
8. Love of Kill - January 13th
Two assassins are romantically drawn to each other, even though their profession makes them rivals and targets to each other.
7. Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku - TBA
A squad of prisoners and their guards are sent to investigate a mysterious island, and get stranded there. Together, they must rely on each other to survive the island's mysterious and monstrous residents.
6. Sabikui Bisco - January 11th
In the far future, a disaster known as the “Rusty Wind” has transformed the majority of Japan into a desert and left civilization in tatters. After his teacher falls prey to the rust, Bisco Akahoshi embarks on a journey to find a mushroom known as the Rust Eater, rumored to cure the ailment.
5. Killing Stalking - TBA
A young, mentally ill man with a difficult past becomes infatuated with Oh Sangwoo, a peer from his time in the military who saved him from a rape attempt.
4. Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror - TBA
Adult Swim’s anime adaptation follows a teenage girl, her boyfriend, and the residents of Kurouzu-cho, which are cursed by supernatural events that cause them to spiral into madness.
3. Blue Lock - TBA
After getting knocked out of the 2018 World Cup, the Japanese football federation decides to create an intense training regimen in order to create the world’s greatest striker for the Samurai Blue.
2. SPYxFAMILY - TBA
The story follows a spy who has to "build a family" in order to execute a mission, not realizing that the daughter and wife he has chosen are a mind reader and an assassin.
1. Chainsaw Man - TBA
A poor young man who will do anything for money has his sad life turned upside down when he’s betrayed by someone he trusts. Now with the power of a devil inside him, Denji’s become a whole new man — Chainsaw Man!
